Return to the Isar and fannish gratitude
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selenakBack in Germany. London continued to be great until the last minute. Lunch with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
kathyh at the Tate Modern was lovely, and we had a great stroll afterwards. Sunshine, wind, the Thames sparkling, and this kind of conversation:
Kathy spots Drake's Golden Hind, mentions Nelson's Victory, which sets off Nelson talk.
S: Is it true that the navy had posters with Emma Hamilton being described as public enemy No.1 as late as the 1920s?
K: It might be. It was like with any of the women who married one of the Beatles.
S: Though at least they weren't naive enough to leave them as legacies to the nation.
At which point both of us looked at each other, struck by the same thought.
K: John would have!
S: He so would have, if he had remained in Britain. Left Yoko as a legacy to the nation!
K: He would have.
On Wednesday evening, I went to the Globe, which has changed directors since the last time I was there, and watched Coriolanus. I kept wondering why Caius Martius himself was vaguely familiar, and then I looked him up in the programm; Jonathan Cake, who had played Oswald Mosley in Mosley. Where he was very different, and so I was impressed. Mind you, Coriolanus is pretty much insufferable, but the production brought out a black humour I had not really noticed when reading the play.
Thursday was spent packing, meetingkangeiko for breakfeast, finally getting a ticket for the exhibition of Michelangelo's drawings, meeting londonkds for tea, watching said drawings and racing to the airport, only to hear the flight was delayed. Which left me more time contemplating the drawings, which were beautiful and so incredibly detailed sometimes just pieces of a shoulder, or an arm; and I thought andrastewhite and artaxastra would have loved the fact the texts pointed out both M.'s homoerotic loves and the fact that the Renaissance saw sexuality not in terms of gay, hetero, bisexual. Also, I was chuffed for some reason upon discovering Michelangelo addressed his father, Lodovico, as "charissimo padre" in his letters. And there was the sheer magic of seeing those reddish or black lines forming words or figures or fragments of the human body, somehow more real in sketch form than up there on the ceiling.
Arriving back home last night, completely exhausted, I discovered more reasons to love fandom:
The Busy Griefs, a fantastic post-X2 story bykarabair, and The Siege of Jericho, which is yahtzee63 taking on Sydney and Sloane pre-pilot-of-show in Alias. gentilhomme wrote a fantastic Jack Bristow ficlet for ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
fandom_muses, The Apprentice, about the first time Jack tortured someone. Last but not least, eirena completed my happiness by making two beautiful banners for my fandom_muses roleplaying Sloane journal (scroll down a bit, as this is a sponsored journal). Much like my muse, I had a slight problem choosing and rather than throwing one in the fire/glass table, I picked both and and will be using the second one for this journal as soon as eirena has finished modifying it (she promised a surprise twist for my personal use)...
ETA: And the shiny new layout of these very pages is up!
kathyh at the Tate Modern was lovely, and we had a great stroll afterwards. Sunshine, wind, the Thames sparkling, and this kind of conversation:Kathy spots Drake's Golden Hind, mentions Nelson's Victory, which sets off Nelson talk.
S: Is it true that the navy had posters with Emma Hamilton being described as public enemy No.1 as late as the 1920s?
K: It might be. It was like with any of the women who married one of the Beatles.
S: Though at least they weren't naive enough to leave them as legacies to the nation.
At which point both of us looked at each other, struck by the same thought.
K: John would have!
S: He so would have, if he had remained in Britain. Left Yoko as a legacy to the nation!
K: He would have.
On Wednesday evening, I went to the Globe, which has changed directors since the last time I was there, and watched Coriolanus. I kept wondering why Caius Martius himself was vaguely familiar, and then I looked him up in the programm; Jonathan Cake, who had played Oswald Mosley in Mosley. Where he was very different, and so I was impressed. Mind you, Coriolanus is pretty much insufferable, but the production brought out a black humour I had not really noticed when reading the play.
Thursday was spent packing, meeting
kangeiko for breakfeast, finally getting a ticket for the exhibition of Michelangelo's drawings, meeting londonkds for tea, watching said drawings and racing to the airport, only to hear the flight was delayed. Which left me more time contemplating the drawings, which were beautiful and so incredibly detailed sometimes just pieces of a shoulder, or an arm; and I thought andrastewhite and artaxastra would have loved the fact the texts pointed out both M.'s homoerotic loves and the fact that the Renaissance saw sexuality not in terms of gay, hetero, bisexual. Also, I was chuffed for some reason upon discovering Michelangelo addressed his father, Lodovico, as "charissimo padre" in his letters. And there was the sheer magic of seeing those reddish or black lines forming words or figures or fragments of the human body, somehow more real in sketch form than up there on the ceiling.Arriving back home last night, completely exhausted, I discovered more reasons to love fandom:
The Busy Griefs, a fantastic post-X2 story by
karabair, and The Siege of Jericho, which is yahtzee63 taking on Sydney and Sloane pre-pilot-of-show in Alias. gentilhomme wrote a fantastic Jack Bristow ficlet for fandom_muses, The Apprentice, about the first time Jack tortured someone. Last but not least, eirena completed my happiness by making two beautiful banners for my fandom_muses roleplaying Sloane journal (scroll down a bit, as this is a sponsored journal). Much like my muse, I had a slight problem choosing and rather than throwing one in the fire/glass table, I picked both and and will be using the second one for this journal as soon as eirena has finished modifying it (she promised a surprise twist for my personal use)...ETA: And the shiny new layout of these very pages is up!
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Date: 2006-06-23 05:43 pm (UTC)I'm still laughing about that because I'm quite convinced he would have done!
Even Ian McKellen couldn't make Coriolanus less than insufferable *g*.
Glad you had a good day on Thursday despite the flight delay.
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Date: 2006-06-23 06:07 pm (UTC)Coriolanus: I blame that hack who wrote the play, personally....
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Date: 2006-06-23 10:01 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-23 07:03 pm (UTC)v.
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Date: 2006-06-23 07:34 pm (UTC)*hugs*
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Date: 2006-06-23 07:42 pm (UTC)Ah, this, too, shall pass. At the very least, it's incentive to re-watch B5, which is like some giant security blanket. And I never finished those Angel S4 reviews, did I? Must get on that too.
*smooches*
also, very snazzy new layout!!
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Date: 2006-06-23 07:25 pm (UTC)K: It might be. It was like with any of the women who married one of the Beatles.
S: Though at least they weren't naive enough to leave them as legacies to the nation.
Thankfully I wasn't drinking anything when I read this. Otherwise the two of you would owe me a keyboard ;-)
(I'm currently reading Susan Sontag's The Volcano Lover, which, among other things, focuses strobngly on the love triangle between poor old William Hamilton, Emma and the famous national hero)
And the shiny new layout of these very pages is up!
The quote from Ulysses seems quite fitting. Even more so, if one takes into account B5's history with that particular poem.
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Date: 2006-06-23 07:43 pm (UTC)Ulysses: the funny thing is that
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Date: 2006-06-23 07:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-23 07:44 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-23 08:09 pm (UTC)Thanks for the pimp and all the recent linkage. Glad your trip was fun!
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Date: 2006-06-24 04:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-24 04:53 am (UTC)*as Scott slumps down in his chair and tries to pretend this isn't happening.
And oooh, that icon is great too.
Sounds like you had a really good time!
Date: 2006-06-23 08:11 pm (UTC)Re: Sounds like you had a really good time!
Date: 2006-06-24 04:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-23 09:07 pm (UTC)I was stewarding a performance a while back, and some Amercian kids were hugely impressed that the production featured Joseph Marcell, who played Will Smith's butler in the sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel Air. The performance I saw wasn't that funny. I only do a performance every fortnight now, but I hear that the humour has crept in recently and isn't universally welcomed.
The Golden Hind on the South Bank is a recent replica, I'm afraid.
It was very nice to have tea with you yesterday, even if we both had to leave too soon. I'm glad you got back safe.
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Date: 2006-06-24 04:52 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-24 08:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-06-24 02:06 am (UTC)*sigh*
I'm on the road in Omaha, hanging with
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Date: 2006-06-24 04:55 am (UTC)Maybe the exhibition will come to New York or Washington, though?